• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol

    If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty “Hope and Change” Obama!

    So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.

    You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You’d rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren’t even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.

    But this is just pathetic.

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      Most of the mainstream media is owned by a few rich fucks, corporations who strive to make money. Corporations love fascism because that gives them more power and less regulations, so ofc they do everything in their power to enable fascism.

      The biggest lie I was told in school was that the market is thriving in competition, it doesn’t. Corporations always want monopolies, so competitors are usurped and driven out by any means necessary.

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        The people win when there is competition. Corporations win when the people have no choice but to hand over their money.

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        The biggest lie I was told in school was that the market is thriving in competition

        It is not a lie. What school doesn’t stress is that you have to defend the markets. Corporations want monopolies and citizens must prevent that by nurturing competitors.

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            What else? It’s either competition in markets or cooperation. Do you think cooperation is easier? How would you implement a cooperating society?

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          BY THE POWER OF MARGARAEGAN, BEGONE, FASCIST FOR THE MARKET WILL BE BALANCED. ME WANT MY CHEAP FLIGHT TO BORA BORA. CHECKOUT MY MEAN SPREADSHEET

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      I’ll say what I already said during the Brexit campaign - if a politician is caught on provably lying to the public, they should be fined, put in prison and prevented from making ANY public appearances or taking public offices for life.

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        This.

        There has to be some accountability, especially for those is positions of power and authority. They should not be allowed to blatantly, and obviously lie their asses off, then claim “I don’t recall…,” or “I was mistaken…,” or throw a subordinate under the bus for providing “Erroneous information.”

        You know what you did.

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      It wasn’t pursuit of profit that killed media scrutiny. It’s that so much of the media is owned by the very same Oligarchs that want the GOP to be in power.

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      It’s true US media has let us down… but defending Tankies? Nah, dawg, that’s a negatory.

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        The more i read the american so-called democrats defending their favorite zio the more i want to take one of yee and hide him in a cave, lock myself with him with a few decagrams of crack and a blowtorch.

        Scumbag

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          Interesting take on the issue. I have a few questions though. Why decagrams specifically? why are you smoking crack with their favorite zio? and what is a zio?

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            Well hectograms sounds like too much you know. It’s a slippery slope and I’m just out of my fourth rehab